I've gotten these same emails and snail mails, they're definatley not cool...
interestingly enuf last year I registered a set of com/net/org domains for a project and got a phone call at my home from some business wanting to sell me their web services cuz they "noticed" I registered these domains...
Also I wholeheartedly agree with Virgin's statement: "As retailers we do support the fight against copyright theft, however this should never be at the expense of the customer."
Isn't that always how it works though? The last steinberg product I ever bought was a copy of LM4 -- it had this *whacky* copy protection that was incompatible with win2k (the installer always detected a pirated copy in win2k, and we're only talking about a 60$ program here)... So I ended up having to use the pirate version anyways... Steinberg! listen up! I'll start buying your products again when you grow the fuck up.
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I meant ssh was optional in the sense it wasn't required to run install scripts... I definatley disable all rsh's/telnets on my machines... which leaves ssh the only option:) Some other departments have learned that the hard way...
as for the cdroms, yeah, my employer has a tendancy to spend *ALOT* of fucking money and skimp on the details... We have a 40,000$ media100 system (kinda device you'd edit a sitcom on) and *it can't encode mpegs* cuz we didn't get the 1000$ copy of media cleaner to do that:)
We've got a 37,000$ sgi octane (we got ripped:)that was very expensive and has been used for nothing more then a terminal for the last 4 years cuz we don't have the compiler for it (costs extra)...
unfourtnatley these are decisions that are out of my control:) I have to work within the situation thats handed to me... and in the meantime, look for a better job:)
bash maybe in an addon pack.. but the default installs of 2.7 and lower definatley had no bash... Infact, a default 2.7 install is just *baren* as im sure your aware. I have done 20 or so solaris installs, and I can tell you my least favorite part is bootstraping the machine to the point that my config scripts can take over
(to me this is:
* mount/usr/local (network),
* set paths so usr/local software overides the default solaris stuff (a couple of the utils like tar are strange)
* install bash/ssh (and libs)/update tcsh (ok, ssh isn't necessary, but its only a couple extra keystrokes)
Now your machine is on the network, you've got bash and the paths are setup to use gnu utilities and not those fucked up ones that come with solaris -- *now* your ready to run your auto-configure script.
Why can't the script setup this by hand? Well, you need bash as an interpreter cuz the sh it comes with is pretty fucked up -- and theres *no* way to get the script on the computer -- recall until recently sparc machines *didn't come with floppies* hell, most of our ultra1's (don't laugh!) don't even have cdroms (I have a spare cdrom I drag from machine to machine when I need to install (but you've gotta open up the machine anyways to set the jumper allow the installer to flash the bios...)
I believe he purchased the server and it was being mailed to him (for later resale). His gig went like this -- he purchased used compaq servers (now from who I don't know) -- and would resale them on ebay... made some fair change with it.
I have seen damage worse then this... A buddy of mines father (used to) resell compaq servers.
He shipped one UPS (insured) and sometime during shipping, UPS put the arm of a forklift thru the package. There was *an actual hole* that went all the way thru the package (and the server).
Naturally he hauls it down there, and they refused to pay the insurance. I think after a few months he got his money -- but UPS put him on a "shit list" and now they inspect *every* package he tenders.
Regardless of server costs -- or whatever... Spyware is wrong -- it should be illegal. I also dont trust the "wolf" here submitting a story about their being no wolves in sheeps clothing.
I would agree with this... Ive been a unix admin for two years -- administration is really the janitor of the new economy.
it *CAN* be a good job, but most places suffer from a few common problems:
1. Expected to be on call *any* time theres a problem.
2. Managers don't like to pay overtime so that time you came in a 2:00am because the server crashed, your prolly not going to even get paid for it.
3. Underfunded and unrealistic expectations. True conversation:
boss, "Dan, come to my office for a minute. We need a webmail system..."
me "umm, we don't have a server thats over 300mhz because we haven't bought equiptment since 97, we don't have the horse power for a webmail server."
boss, "I need it by this weekend."
two days later, me "I've setup a web mail program."
boss, "great, lets see it... its too slow"
me, "it worked for me, lemme check it out. oh, your mail spool is 200 megs and it has email going back all the way to the opening of our center in 1991, coincedentaly, thats the year I started gradeschool, *AND* I told you it wasn't gonna run on a 300mhz machine anyways."
boss: "I need it by friday".
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Now Im not saying that *all* admin jobs are bad -- but most are:)
I could tell 100 other awfull stories, but follow this mans good advice and get a better job it at all possible. You know your a slave to a machine when your fucking disk array pages you because it needs service -- not a good feeling.
Granted the XBOX has a powerfull graphics chip, but isn't the biggest trick in the bag -- that the resolution of the TV is *soooo* much lower then the pc its trivial to render for compared to the (standard) 1024x768?
terrorists, kiddy porn and now pirate music... the three most common reasons to take away our rights as of late.
I really don't think theres *that much* kiddy porn on these networks and this is why -- every conciveable search term for *any* kind of porn has been completley saturated by (smart but sneaky) porn companies. I think it would be lost in the noise.
Are the graphs in this document completley screwey and arbitrary? One looked like a bowl of bambo chutes, but most of them looked like things I've seen in a microscope.
Another problem -- in grade school we used scientific calculators, high school, graphing calculators...
Then you get to college and their so afraid people will cheat (by storing notes in their calculators) -- its no calculators for most classes -- and when they're absoultley necessary -- a shitty scientific is allowed
This is how it is at UCR atleast... I hope its different somewhere else:) I've often wondered -- when there would be an emergency engineering situation where neither calculators nor books are avaliable (a situation that coresponds to testing).
they look gorgeous in IE, and are almost unuseable in ns
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Im serious:) who is making games with *great storytelling* like the old dos games?
Dos games were great because the graphics SUCKED so you *HAD* to tell a good story to keep anyone interested...
IMHO, 3d was the worst thing to happen to games. Kids buy games for "Awesome graphics" (tell me what that means someone)... because people are too stupid anymore to tell presentation from content! If you wrap a pile of shit in pretty box they'll pay for it...
Im going to agree whole heartidly with this... I own a supermicro p6dls motherboard (dual P2, LX chipset, onboard scsi) and the thing is an absoulte trooper. Its run 24/7 since late 97 (been turned on, not uptime:)... Its never thrown a kernel panic, and only once a blue screen.
I wish supermicro would bite the bullet and make AMD boards...
I was posed a similar question at my place of employment, and the only thing I could think of that was remotely feasable was to use DVCR's or security vcrs. Thus the bulk of the information, could stay on tape, and we'd only transfer onto a computer, what we actually needed.
If you read the toms hardware review, it said the athlon MP/XP thermal diode were capable of detecting no more then a 1 degree/celcius per second change and no more... they've carefully engineered this "test" so the rate of change is below that threshold... toms test was worst-case and thats what you have to plan for.
ahh, but the lawyer who does it will be rich... Usually how this work is -- the lawyer arranges some incredible payment for himself, and some minimal payment for the people he represents...
If you wanna see reiser shine : put 20,000 files in a single directory and see how long it takes to ls them? The difference between ext2 and reiser will be *seconds* in reisers favor.
And of course the journaling filesystems are slower, BECAUSE THEY ARE BUSY JOURNALING. Journaling is done for saftey not speed.
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hehe ... freedom from a bad woman, priceless ... endearment to a good one, also priceless.
I've gotten these same emails and snail mails, they're definatley not cool ...
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interestingly enuf last year I registered a set of com/net/org domains for a project and got a phone call at my home from some business wanting to sell me their web services cuz they "noticed" I registered these domains
Isn't that always how it works though? The last steinberg product I ever bought was a copy of LM4 -- it had this *whacky* copy protection that was incompatible with win2k (the installer always detected a pirated copy in win2k, and we're only talking about a 60$ program here) ... So I ended up having to use the pirate version anyways ... Steinberg! listen up! I'll start buying your products again when you grow the fuck up.
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I meant ssh was optional in the sense it wasn't required to run install scripts ... I definatley disable all rsh's/telnets on my machines ... which leaves ssh the only option :) Some other departments have learned that the hard way...
... We have a 40,000$ media100 system (kinda device you'd edit a sitcom on) and *it can't encode mpegs* cuz we didn't get the 1000$ copy of media cleaner to do that :)
:) I have to work within the situation thats handed to me ... and in the meantime, look for a better job :)
:)
as for the cdroms, yeah, my employer has a tendancy to spend *ALOT* of fucking money and skimp on the details
We've got a 37,000$ sgi octane (we got ripped:)that was very expensive and has been used for nothing more then a terminal for the last 4 years cuz we don't have the compiler for it (costs extra)...
unfourtnatley these are decisions that are out of my control
but yours is good advice
bash maybe in an addon pack .. but the default installs of 2.7 and lower definatley had no bash ... Infact, a default 2.7 install is just *baren* as im sure your aware. I have done 20 or so solaris installs, and I can tell you my least favorite part is bootstraping the machine to the point that my config scripts can take over
/usr/local (network),
...)
...
(to me this is:
* mount
* set paths so usr/local software overides the default solaris stuff (a couple of the utils like tar are strange)
* install bash/ssh (and libs)/update tcsh (ok, ssh isn't necessary, but its only a couple extra keystrokes)
Now your machine is on the network, you've got bash and the paths are setup to use gnu utilities and not those fucked up ones that come with solaris -- *now* your ready to run your auto-configure script.
Why can't the script setup this by hand? Well, you need bash as an interpreter cuz the sh it comes with is pretty fucked up -- and theres *no* way to get the script on the computer -- recall until recently sparc machines *didn't come with floppies* hell, most of our ultra1's (don't laugh!) don't even have cdroms (I have a spare cdrom I drag from machine to machine when I need to install (but you've gotta open up the machine anyways to set the jumper allow the installer to flash the bios
I guess I could make a bootstrapping cdrom
I believe he purchased the server and it was being mailed to him (for later resale). His gig went like this -- he purchased used compaq servers (now from who I don't know) -- and would resale them on ebay... made some fair change with it.
I have seen damage worse then this ... A buddy of mines father (used to) resell compaq servers.
He shipped one UPS (insured) and sometime during shipping, UPS put the arm of a forklift thru the package. There was *an actual hole* that went all the way thru the package (and the server).
Naturally he hauls it down there, and they refused to pay the insurance. I think after a few months he got his money -- but UPS put him on a "shit list" and now they inspect *every* package he tenders.
Regardless of server costs -- or whatever ... Spyware is wrong -- it should be illegal. I also dont trust the "wolf" here submitting a story about their being no wolves in sheeps clothing.
Don't feed the trolls
I would agree with this... Ive been a unix admin for two years -- administration is really the janitor of the new economy.
:)
it *CAN* be a good job, but most places suffer from a few common problems:
1. Expected to be on call *any* time theres a problem.
2. Managers don't like to pay overtime so that time you came in a 2:00am because the server crashed, your prolly not going to even get paid for it.
3. Underfunded and unrealistic expectations. True conversation:
boss, "Dan, come to my office for a minute. We need a webmail system..."
me "umm, we don't have a server thats over 300mhz because we haven't bought equiptment since 97, we don't have the horse power for a webmail server."
boss, "I need it by this weekend."
two days later, me "I've setup a web mail program."
boss, "great, lets see it... its too slow"
me, "it worked for me, lemme check it out. oh, your mail spool is 200 megs and it has email going back all the way to the opening of our center in 1991, coincedentaly, thats the year I started gradeschool, *AND* I told you it wasn't gonna run on a 300mhz machine anyways."
boss: "I need it by friday".
------
Now Im not saying that *all* admin jobs are bad -- but most are
I could tell 100 other awfull stories, but follow this mans good advice and get a better job it at all possible. You know your a slave to a machine when your fucking disk array pages you because it needs service -- not a good feeling.
Granted the XBOX has a powerfull graphics chip, but isn't the biggest trick in the bag -- that the resolution of the TV is *soooo* much lower then the pc its trivial to render for compared to the (standard) 1024x768?
terrorists, kiddy porn and now pirate music ... the three most common reasons to take away our rights as of late.
I really don't think theres *that much* kiddy porn on these networks and this is why -- every conciveable search term for *any* kind of porn has been completley saturated by (smart but sneaky) porn companies. I think it would be lost in the noise.
Im pretty sure sharing mp3s isnt a rico predicate in any conciveable way.
Why ask how? :)
"You don't ask how some things are done, you just e do them." - Q
Are the graphs in this document completley screwey and arbitrary? One looked like a bowl of bambo chutes, but most of them looked like things I've seen in a microscope.
"Think on your feet" and "remembering the moment of a cylinder" or "remembering the integral of csc^2" are two entirely different things ...
Another problem -- in grade school we used scientific calculators, high school, graphing calculators ...
... I hope its different somewhere else :) I've often wondered -- when there would be an emergency engineering situation where neither calculators nor books are avaliable (a situation that coresponds to testing).
Then you get to college and their so afraid people will cheat (by storing notes in their calculators) -- its no calculators for most classes -- and when they're absoultley necessary -- a shitty scientific is allowed
This is how it is at UCR atleast
Its widely known that JIT compilers can only reach about 30% of the host-native speed due to the branch perdiction problem ...
In no case will it be"as fast" then native code
goto my websites ...
thehumbleguys.com
monkelectric.com
they look gorgeous in IE, and are almost unuseable in ns
Im serious :) who is making games with *great storytelling* like the old dos games?
...
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Dos games were great because the graphics SUCKED so you *HAD* to tell a good story to keep anyone interested
IMHO, 3d was the worst thing to happen to games. Kids buy games for "Awesome graphics" (tell me what that means someone)... because people are too stupid anymore to tell presentation from content! If you wrap a pile of shit in pretty box they'll pay for it
(end rant)
Im going to agree whole heartidly with this ... I own a supermicro p6dls motherboard (dual P2, LX chipset, onboard scsi) and the thing is an absoulte trooper. Its run 24/7 since late 97 (been turned on, not uptime:) ... Its never thrown a kernel panic, and only once a blue screen.
I wish supermicro would bite the bullet and make AMD boards...
I was posed a similar question at my place of employment, and the only thing I could think of that was remotely feasable was to use DVCR's or security vcrs. Thus the bulk of the information, could stay on tape, and we'd only transfer onto a computer, what we actually needed.
If you read the toms hardware review, it said the athlon MP/XP thermal diode were capable of detecting no more then a 1 degree/celcius per second change and no more ... they've carefully engineered this "test" so the rate of change is below that threshold... toms test was worst-case and thats what you have to plan for.
ahh, but the lawyer who does it will be rich ... Usually how this work is -- the lawyer arranges some incredible payment for himself, and some minimal payment for the people he represents ...
And of course the journaling filesystems are slower, BECAUSE THEY ARE BUSY JOURNALING. Journaling is done for saftey not speed.